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Shooting the Messengers?
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
3:00 a.m. 14.Oct.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- When a group of
Montana parents needed to raise money
to pay for their children's athletic
programs this week, they decided to
raffle off a Ruger rifle. In a message sent
to local mailing lists, they announced,
"The Missoula County Home School
Athletic Association is sponsoring a Ruger
M77 30-06 with a walnut stock and a 3x9
Tasco."
Such a posting could send the parents
straight to prison unless their notice
complied with Internet advertising
restrictions added to the Senate version
of the Juvenile Justice bill, according to
some Second Amendment advocates.
House and Senate committee staff are
meeting this week to resolve the different
versions of the crime bill, said a
spokeswoman for the Senate Judiciary
committee. "They're trying to get
agreements on things. We're getting
closer."
"Basically, you will go to prison for one
year for attempting to sell a firearm over
the Internet if your email is pulled down
by anyone under 18 or any 'prohibited
person,'" says Mike Hammond, a
consultant to Gun Owners of America and
a former general counsel to the US
Senate steering committee.
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Shooting the Messengers?
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
3:00 a.m. 14.Oct.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- When a group of
Montana parents needed to raise money
to pay for their children's athletic
programs this week, they decided to
raffle off a Ruger rifle. In a message sent
to local mailing lists, they announced,
"The Missoula County Home School
Athletic Association is sponsoring a Ruger
M77 30-06 with a walnut stock and a 3x9
Tasco."
Such a posting could send the parents
straight to prison unless their notice
complied with Internet advertising
restrictions added to the Senate version
of the Juvenile Justice bill, according to
some Second Amendment advocates.
House and Senate committee staff are
meeting this week to resolve the different
versions of the crime bill, said a
spokeswoman for the Senate Judiciary
committee. "They're trying to get
agreements on things. We're getting
closer."
"Basically, you will go to prison for one
year for attempting to sell a firearm over
the Internet if your email is pulled down
by anyone under 18 or any 'prohibited
person,'" says Mike Hammond, a
consultant to Gun Owners of America and
a former general counsel to the US
Senate steering committee.
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